CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta Rocks the World with ‘WEED’

Last night, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta debuted his new documentary ‘Weed’. Gupta went to Israel where patients use vaporizers in the hospital and talked to seriously ill patients to conclude that marijuana is indeed a medicine that is saving lives, and he was “systematically misled” about the dangers of the drug. “For the last 70 years it’s been demonized,” he said. “We simply haven’t gotten accurate information about this.”

Dr. Gupta believes the federal government should re-schedule cannabis down from schedule 1 (alongisde heroin and LSD), but politicians lack the will to do so. Research into the beneficial effects of cannabis are blocked by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. NIDA’s head, Dr. Nora Volkow, compared cannabis with methamphetamine and cocaine – saying a prohibition on medical marijuana research remains justified.

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